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Research Scientist– Future Mobility Sensing

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Overview

The Future Mobility Sensing (FMS) system is a comprehensive platform to facilitate study of users’ travel behaviors. We use GPS/GSM/Accelerometer/WiFi data collected by smartphones or other tracking devices to enable more accurate data collection than traditional methods. Our system consists of an smartphone app that collects sensor data from mobile devices; a backend server that processes the raw data to infer users' stops, activities, and modes of transportation; and a web application that allows users to verify and interact with their processed data in the form of a map and activity timeline. This technology is poised to transform approaches to surveying individuals and households about their travel, activities and lifestyles, and help transportation agencies, companies, and researchers make better decisions for planning and management.

The FMS technology is also being extended to conduct real time surveys, stated preferences surveys, provide feedback and trip planning information to users etc. Another important extension of FMS is FMS-Freight, which is an innovative commodity flow survey system that collects establishment, shipment and vehicle information in an automated and integrated way.

Responsibilities

Under limited supervision, the Research Scientist is expected to take management responsibility for the project and play a main role in research, implementation, and survey coordination activities. The candidate will participate in proposal writing; interact with multiple partners and stakeholders. The candidate is also expected to contribute to official project reports, supervise student, software engineers and researchers working on the project, regularly meet with supervisors, and disseminate research findings in journals and conferences.

Requirements

We are looking for exceptional candidates with strong backgrounds in relevant areas including:

PhD in Computer Science, Transportation or related disciplines

Experience in managing research projects.

Independent and self-motivated, yet able to work as part of a multidisciplinary team.

The position will be based at the SMART FM Offices on the new campus of the National University of Singapore (NUS), with the possibility of travelling to MIT (for up to a few months) as part of the international collaboration. The Research Scientist will work with an integrated team of faculty, researchers, software engineers and students from MIT and SMART. The MIT PI’s for this project are Prof. Moshe Ben-Akiva and Prof. Christopher Zegras.

Interested applicants will have to submit their full CV/resume, cover letter and list of three references (to include reference names and contact information). We regret that only shortlisted candidates will be notified.